COVID-19: estratégias de sensibilização pró-imunização na UBS Francisca Borges de Assis, município de Teotônio Vilela, Alagoas

Abstract

In 2020, a new coronavirus variant, called SARS-Cov 2, unleashed the biggest sanitarian crisis of the 21st Century: the COVID-19 pandemic, against which were developed and approved in Brazil the vaccines CoronaVac (Sinovac), AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Janssen. The historical relevance of vaccines, as well as their importance for the control and eradication of pathologies, have been threatened by the growth of the anti-vaccine movements. This study was developed in the first semester of 2021 as an alternative to act against the hesitation of the people assisted by the UBS Francisca Borges de Assis, in the alagoan agreste. The objective is to let the users know about the importance of vaccines against the new coronavirus. Some strategies were developed with the help of the UBS professional health team (as well as some community-volunteers) and supported by state and national efforts, along with TV media campaigns designed to increase the adhesion to immunization, thus allowing to reduce the number of deaths, post-disease sequelae, and essential workers absence, preventing the health system breakdown.